| Soundwave said:
A9 is not A9X, A9X will be at least double what the A9 is. And I never said they are using the A9X or A9 (even though Sony basically did use the same GPU from PowerVR that Apple used in the A5X ... PowerVR will sell it to anyone). I'm just saying this TYPE of processor is likely to be the basis of what Nintendo is going for because it operates under a thermal envelope that is reasonable for a mobile fan-less device. You can't just make any super-duper 2 TFLOP console using desktop parts and then think you're going to have a unified platform with a mobile part ... a Carizzo would melt the inside of a 3DS in 10 minutes of play. Personally I think Nintendo will go for a custom design but one that is heavily based around what's happening with the bleeding edge tablet/smartphone processors. And from there they can scale that up for a console chip if they want two seperate SKUs, but even that I'm starting to become doubtful of. I think NX is what Nintendo says it is ... a new hardware concept that is completely different from the Wii U or 3DS. I think it is a portable all-in-one console that has other new ways to play that make it different from any other game hardware before it. Just my hunch though. Maaaaybe there will be eventually other SKU versions of it, but I think primarily that's what NX is. A $250 portable console probably with some other new gimmick attached to it. When Nintendo says "new hardware concept" I think fans keep going "yeah, yeah, you won't change much just unify the library right?", but I'm starting to feel when look at their actual quotes on the system that they're not joking around. This will be something different. |
Nintendo never said "new hardware concept." They said "new hardware with a brand new concept," which is completely different. The hardware isn't the new concept. The hardware is being accompanied by the new concept, which is the unified platform. Iwata literally said that they weren't going to do an all-in-one portable console-like device when he said that they wouldn't be integrating the home console and handheld into one machine.
"What we mean by integrating platforms is NOT integrating handhelds devices and home consoles to make only one machine. What we are aiming at is to integrate the architecture to form a common basis for software development so that we can make software assets more transferrable, and operating systems and their build-in applications more portable, regardless of form factor or performance of EACH platform." - Iwata
I know that you really want to be right with this "portable console" thing, but it's literally based on nothing. In fact, it literally been flat out denied.
